October 31 Sunday – Sam continued the Oct. 30 letter to Livy:

“I walked around town this morning with a young Mr. Dean, a cousin of Wm D. Howells, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He kindly offered to give me a letter of introduction to Mr. Howells, but I thanked him sincerely & declined, saying I had a sort of delicacy about using letters of introduction…”

Sam had a photograph made by Upson & Simson of Buffalo [MTP].

Sam received visitors “one after the other all day long,” and went to church in the evening. He disliked the “frozen, monotonous, precise & inflectionless” sermon, but loved the “very ecstasy of harmony” of the music. Sam finished the letter at 1 AM, Nov. 1 [MTL 3: 375-81]. Lorch includes O.T. Bennett of the Commercial among the visitors, someone Sam found “a good fellow, modest & pleasant” [106].